CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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369 km from Wassertrüdingen to Wassertrüdingen, about 5 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, Water Management System of Augsburg and back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. The line favours views over speed.
The Raetian Limes, the eastern part of the Roman frontier in Germany, is different from the Upper Germanic section, because here the Romans built a wall. The remains of the stone wall, which stretches across Bavaria for about a hundred and sixty kilometres, are known locally as the Devil's Wall, the Teufelsmauer, because people long believed that no human could have made it. Watchtower WP 13/40, near the village of Arberg in Middle Franconia, stands along this section, and its foundations can be traced in a field or at the edge of a wood.
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Watchtower WP 13/40 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
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Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo comes up 82 km in. Next is Water Management System of Augsburg.
Augsburg was a Roman town, a medieval free imperial city and the home of the fabulously rich Fugger banking family, but the thing that held it all together was water. Over the centuries, the city built an intricate network of canals fed by the Lech and Wertach rivers, water towers, pumping stations and fountains, supplying clean drinking water to the citizens and power to mills and workshops. The system was so advanced that UNESCO inscribed it in 2019, recognising twenty-two sites, from the water towers at the Red Gate, dating back to the fifteenth century, to the great Renaissance fountains dedicated to Augustus, Mercury and Hercules on the main street.
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164 km in you reach Water Management System of Augsburg. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo, late in the day. Next is Watchtower WP 13/40.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 13/40 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtower WP 13/40. That is the ride.
Watchtower WP 13/40 → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Water Management System of Augsburg is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Water Management System of Augsburg → back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtower WP 13/40 is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.